Post by jamshundred on Jun 5, 2016 22:55:05 GMT
Dear ADCA members,
The AGM approaches. If there is one really good choice you can make for yourselves it is to DEMAND that ADCA publish the genotype case numbers with the genotype entries. If their current unprofessional method continues. .. .YOU. . . . will likely regret it, for ADCA is NOT known for being helpful to Dexter owners. Many of them call me because I AM always willing and usually available to help with questions.
Some of you have already experienced the frustration and hours spent tracking down breeders to get tail hairs to genotype a bull so you can register offspring. Or cows as well. Have you any idea how many jump in and out of this breed, taking their records with them and NOT wishing to be bothered a few years down the road to dig through files ( if they yet exist) to search for that information for you?
All PROFESSIONAL level registries publish the DNA case numbers on the registration records. ADCA somehow thinks not publishing this information is detrimental to Legacy. Legacy is knowledgable, experienced, and capable of tracking down information from and for owners. MEMBERS are not. Most of them do not know how to go about this. . and they get little help from their association.
Take yourself for instance. You registered a cow or a bull. Met all the requirements. The cow is carrying a calf and you sell the cow. New owner buys the cow and some months later a calf is born to a "newbie" who now has to DNA type the calf and parentage confirm to both the sire and dam. HOW to they get the information on the parents DNA cases numbers? Why, they have to CALL or WRITE you to find out where the cow was tested, and case numbers. Let's say that was your last cow and you are up in years and you retire to Florida. Gone as so many Dexter owners of just the past few years have gone. The owner of that calf has to hunt you down to get the information. Can we pray you are findable? What if the next owner of that cow had a change in their life standards and now the cow has been sold to a third owner? There are a number of challenging scenarios possible and I have helped owners resolve all of them at one time or another. It should not have been necessary if their breed association was one that knew PROFESSIONAL standards.
You should bring this up at the AGM. It is an important issue especially now that you are required to genotype all animals being registered, AND. . . .. don't think this is anything that Legacy needs. I am an accomplished researcher and an experienced breeder and I know the systems. All the systems. I help others wade through them. If an owner needs information I tell them how and where to go for it. BUT. . .. I should not have to do this. It should be available to them because their breed association should be making professional choices with their members best interests as the focus.
Legacy has always published case numbers because that is what professional registries that require genotyping do. Legacy has never feared that ADCA or PDCA or CDCA or anyone would be able to use those case numbers for anything other than their scientific purpose. . identification and parentage confirmation of Dexters, because that IS their only purpose.
Don't say I didn't warn you! Even now the ADCA membership has been advised NOT to call their registrar. She cannot currently handle the load of questions and the guidance that ADCA members seek and much of that is information needed of testing.
By the way, one other thing! This week I was helping someone who had some heifers to register and a bull that isn't tested and they cannot get tail hairs. While searching for information I noticed the ADCA registration showed the bull had a recorded chondro result. Stroke of luck I thought! I told the owner to call ADCA and ask for a check of the records to find out what lab tested for the chondro as there would be a sample there, and the owner could be asked for permission to genotype from the sample. The bull could be tested, the heifers parentage confirmed and problem solved!
The owner followed my instructions. The owner was told there was no test . . .. . it was an OBLIGATE status. Folks, the animal being given obligate status was NOT DNA genotyped or parentage confirmed. How can you give obligate status to an animal if the parentage isn't established? ADCA simply does not know, or does not operate with proper professional standards. For an animal to be obligate they must be confirmed to the tested parents! EVERY genetic test result entered into ADCA records is now QUESTIONABLE and cannot be relied upon as accurate, for they do not show the genetic reference with case numbers or with obligate status backed up by case numbers.
The AGM approaches. If there is one really good choice you can make for yourselves it is to DEMAND that ADCA publish the genotype case numbers with the genotype entries. If their current unprofessional method continues. .. .YOU. . . . will likely regret it, for ADCA is NOT known for being helpful to Dexter owners. Many of them call me because I AM always willing and usually available to help with questions.
Some of you have already experienced the frustration and hours spent tracking down breeders to get tail hairs to genotype a bull so you can register offspring. Or cows as well. Have you any idea how many jump in and out of this breed, taking their records with them and NOT wishing to be bothered a few years down the road to dig through files ( if they yet exist) to search for that information for you?
All PROFESSIONAL level registries publish the DNA case numbers on the registration records. ADCA somehow thinks not publishing this information is detrimental to Legacy. Legacy is knowledgable, experienced, and capable of tracking down information from and for owners. MEMBERS are not. Most of them do not know how to go about this. . and they get little help from their association.
Take yourself for instance. You registered a cow or a bull. Met all the requirements. The cow is carrying a calf and you sell the cow. New owner buys the cow and some months later a calf is born to a "newbie" who now has to DNA type the calf and parentage confirm to both the sire and dam. HOW to they get the information on the parents DNA cases numbers? Why, they have to CALL or WRITE you to find out where the cow was tested, and case numbers. Let's say that was your last cow and you are up in years and you retire to Florida. Gone as so many Dexter owners of just the past few years have gone. The owner of that calf has to hunt you down to get the information. Can we pray you are findable? What if the next owner of that cow had a change in their life standards and now the cow has been sold to a third owner? There are a number of challenging scenarios possible and I have helped owners resolve all of them at one time or another. It should not have been necessary if their breed association was one that knew PROFESSIONAL standards.
You should bring this up at the AGM. It is an important issue especially now that you are required to genotype all animals being registered, AND. . . .. don't think this is anything that Legacy needs. I am an accomplished researcher and an experienced breeder and I know the systems. All the systems. I help others wade through them. If an owner needs information I tell them how and where to go for it. BUT. . .. I should not have to do this. It should be available to them because their breed association should be making professional choices with their members best interests as the focus.
Legacy has always published case numbers because that is what professional registries that require genotyping do. Legacy has never feared that ADCA or PDCA or CDCA or anyone would be able to use those case numbers for anything other than their scientific purpose. . identification and parentage confirmation of Dexters, because that IS their only purpose.
Don't say I didn't warn you! Even now the ADCA membership has been advised NOT to call their registrar. She cannot currently handle the load of questions and the guidance that ADCA members seek and much of that is information needed of testing.
By the way, one other thing! This week I was helping someone who had some heifers to register and a bull that isn't tested and they cannot get tail hairs. While searching for information I noticed the ADCA registration showed the bull had a recorded chondro result. Stroke of luck I thought! I told the owner to call ADCA and ask for a check of the records to find out what lab tested for the chondro as there would be a sample there, and the owner could be asked for permission to genotype from the sample. The bull could be tested, the heifers parentage confirmed and problem solved!
The owner followed my instructions. The owner was told there was no test . . .. . it was an OBLIGATE status. Folks, the animal being given obligate status was NOT DNA genotyped or parentage confirmed. How can you give obligate status to an animal if the parentage isn't established? ADCA simply does not know, or does not operate with proper professional standards. For an animal to be obligate they must be confirmed to the tested parents! EVERY genetic test result entered into ADCA records is now QUESTIONABLE and cannot be relied upon as accurate, for they do not show the genetic reference with case numbers or with obligate status backed up by case numbers.
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